The Gallery at BFI Southbank, London, SE1 5 December 2008 – 1 February 2009 Private view: Thursday 4 December, 6.30-9pm www.bfi.org.uk/gallery ‘There are many different types of reaction; some of my films have caused riots, fights, and all kinds of things.’ - Michael Snow (more…)

John Welchman, LA based speaker, author and expert and colleague of artist Paul McCarthy spent Friday at Sheffield Hallam Arts Dept The talk, slides and film shown of McCarthy’s recent ‘Caribbean Pirates’ (not showing at a cinema near you) was totally engaging. Abject art has nothing on what’s going on here, grotesque, ritualised, scatalogical, bloody, political and dangerous indeed. The informal talk after was on Institutional Risk and then I got a private tutorial. Top marks for the uni for arranging {...}